My latest oil pastel was submitted for the Wetcanvas Oil Pastel Monthly Challenge. Using a reference image that was selected for members to use in this challenge, I couldn’t resist making the painting my own.

Blue Bowl and Pears an oil pastel (9×7) was painted on black tinted Mi-Teintes pastel paper. The original image was three yellow pears, a white table-cloth fully covering a table against a very light beige/white wall w/the lower half bead boarded. I saw an old masters still life when I looked at the photograph – so two of the yellow pears turned into red pears, with a black background and gray-black table and beige cloth. A little different, but it’s the vision I kept seeing when painting the scene.

Wow, a still life! Love it, the pears are sublime and delicious just as the small highlight accents on the rim of the bowl! An old master’s still life that is exactly how it feels and the decision to make it your own worked out perfectly! Wonderful piece!

Hi Eva, so glad you enjoyed this piece – thanks for noticing the pears and other light details. The vision I had from the beginning led me on this journey, glad I stuck with it because I could feel the painting come alive.

Thanks Prospero, I missed your descriptive words! A little dark I agree, and yet this is what popped into my mind when I first saw the image to paint – the darker, nondescript blue bowl set the mood, the light hitting the pears is what I wanted to draw the viewer in to the scene. Thanks again ~